IIT Kharagpur HackU 2013

Follower Circles

Description

The problem to be solved:
Twitter users might prefer to post tweets directed at certain groups instead of making a public tweet or sending a personalized message. So, it would be helpful if the user has the groups/communities available to him/her to complete this task.
Task solved by our App, Follower Circles
• Group your followers into distinct communities/circles
• Label these circles on the basis of the common features of its members
Future motivation
• Tweet to the circle of your own choice
Approach
• Crawl data from Twitter
• Model the graph of the Twitter network
• Create clusters using Modularity Approach
• Label each class on the similarities in their biography
Science Involved/References
• Modularity algorithm by Vincent D Blondel to help in cluster creation
• Stanford POS(Part of Speech) tagger to detect nouns from biography of the list of followers
• Majority approach for labelling of communities